Gee-tar Amp Recommendations

[Alistair]

Right, I'm considering buying a new electric guitar amp for gigging.

I'm no guitar hero so want something simple, easy to use, some presets and effects but with ability to change tone manually. 50-100W, ideally quite compact. £250-£300 max (double that for $).

Any recommendations?

[aworldcollision]

Right, I'm considering buying a new electric guitar amp for gigging.

I'm no guitar hero so want something simple, easy to use, some presets and effects but with ability to change tone manually. 50-100W, ideally quite compact. £250-£300 max (double that for $).

Any recommendations?

My suggestion is that you skip the effects for now. Look for a solid tube amp with a 12. It will be expensive enough without the add-ons. No matter how many effects you have you need to start with a great tone.

[john]

Hey

As a tranisitor amp I loved my old Peavy Renown 400. It's 200W and and hand you should definitely get one for that price.

Cheers

John

[DAB]

Hey

As a tranisitor amp I loved my old Peavy Renown 400. It's 200W and and hand you should definitely get one for that price.

Cheers

John

I have a Peavey Bandit 112, it rocks out with both my Pocket POD, and the X3. I love using my two wah wah's with it too, esp Slash sig wah. I would highly recommend it, then again.. what do I know My practise amp is a Line 6 Micro Spider, the bigger one's look and sound pretty cool too. The obvious + is the built in effects. Brand new I think the Peavey is £275 or so, second hand.. who knows?

DAB.

[Alistair]

I tried a Peavey Valveking 100w but it wasn't as warm as I had expected. I went for Vox Valvetronix 50W combo in the end which I amstill getting to know but looks promising. A mere £199 too.

[Rudi]

Unless you are some retro-tone-purist I would avoid tube amps altogether. Whatever you choose, a clean channel paramount. You can add effects later.

[Guitargodchris]

I have a Line 6 Spider III and It's quite cool, it has effects like 300 effects built in and I have gotten some really cool sounds from it, take a look at it Here

Its about £200 for a 75W but trust me it sounds a lot louder than you think, I actually had my whole street out of their houses and at my front door when i played it on full for 10 min but I do have a 150W XD

[Alistair]

Unless you are some retro-tone-purist I would avoid tube amps altogether. Whatever you choose, a clean channel paramount. You can add effects later.

The preamp is valve, the rest is transistors

[DAB]

I have a Line 6 Spider III and It's quite cool, it has effects like 300 effects built in and I have gotten some really cool sounds from it, take a look at it Here

Its about £200 for a 75W but trust me it sounds a lot louder than you think, I actually had my whole street out of their houses and at my front door when i played it on full for 10 min but I do have a 150W XD

Your neighbours sound just like mine Same thing happened about three weeks ago, I had the iPod through my POD, connected to my amp, playing along with some old AC/DC I promised them it would never happen again, and whispered "well not this week anyway"

[DAB]

I tried a Line 6 Spider Jam amp yesterday, I ordered one on the spot I take delivery of it on Thursday, I can't wait to experiment with this thing

http://uk.line6.com/spiderjam/

DAB

[Steve]

Looks pretty good!

[DAB]

Did I say Thursday? I just got a phone call, they have one available now! Some poor sod cancelled their order, so I'm going to pick it up now

[DAB]

This thing is the mutz nutz, I've been messing around with it since I got it. I can't stay away from it, completely blown away by it. I've never considered recording myself, until now I'll wait until my fingers have stopped being so numb lol The Peavey has her cover on again, don't think she will be back out for a while. Highly recommend this amp guys, I reckon I got not a bad deal it on too. All and all I'm over the moon, can't say the same for my neighbours